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  • Malcolm Gladwell: blink

    Malcolm Gladwell: blink
    How developed is your intuition? Gladwell's book speaks to what we inately know and how this can impact how we keep our ideals in motion.

  • Geshe Michael Roach: Diamond Cutter

    Geshe Michael Roach: Diamond Cutter
    Some great tools and insights for keeping myself and my ideals in motion.

  • Daniel Quinn: Ishmael

    Daniel Quinn: Ishmael
    Fascinating book that places the reader in a position to view our culture as humans through the eyes of an outsider. Free of prejudice and beliefs, the outsider's view is provacative. In reading this book you will come to question "truths" that, for many of us, are sorely in need of examination.

  • The Arbinger Institute: Leadership and Self-Deception

    The Arbinger Institute: Leadership and Self-Deception
    Learning how the process of self-deception works - and how to avoid it and stay in touch with our innate sense of what's right - what's ideal - is at the heart of this book.

  • Peter Senge: Presence

    Peter Senge: Presence
    This is not a typical business book. It offers powerful tools and ideas for changing the mindset of leaders and unlocking the latent potential necessary to keep our ideals in motion.

  • Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, Mark Thompson: Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters

    Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, Mark Thompson: Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters
    From one of the authors of Built to Last and one of my good friends, this book expertly draws on hundereds of conversations with remarkable people from around the world to explore why successful people stay successful and what you can do to have a life that is "built to last".

  • Arbinger Institute: The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict (BK Life)

    Arbinger Institute: The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict (BK Life)
    "...is a brilliantly written, stimulating read with a rare clarity that awakens reflection and compels action. I recommend it without hesitation to anyone interested in finding solutions to conflicts ranging from the personal to the global." ~ Gilead Sher, former Chief of Staff of the Prime Minister of Israel and chief negotiator with the Palestinians

  • Bruce H. Lipton: The Biology Of Belief: Unleashing The Power Of Consciousness, Matter And Miracles

    Bruce H. Lipton: The Biology Of Belief: Unleashing The Power Of Consciousness, Matter And Miracles
    Fascinating look at the way we are literally creating our present and future realities from the inside out.

  • Richard Strozzi-Heckler: The Leadership Dojo: Build Your Foundation as an Exemplary Leader

    Richard Strozzi-Heckler: The Leadership Dojo: Build Your Foundation as an Exemplary Leader
    Profound and practical don't often go together and with this book Richard Strozzi-Heckler has managed to accomplish this rare feat. This book is one of the best treatments I've read on a topic as old as humankind. With humor, storytelling and a grasp of leadership that is truly masterful the author "leads" the reader on a journey exploring both what it means and what it takes to be an exceptional leader. It's a journey that culminates in viewing "leader" and "leadership" in a way that shatters stereotypes and makes the art of leadership accessible to any that are required to be leaders in their lives. Highly recommended!

  • Pam Bartlett: Women Connected - A Session-by-Session Coaching Guide for Women's Groups

    Pam Bartlett: Women Connected - A Session-by-Session Coaching Guide for Women's Groups
    An extraordinary and practical guide to sustaining ideals in motion. Author Marianne Williamson says "Women Connected paves the way, by bringing us closer to each other and to the truth within ourselves."

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December 08, 2006

It's the connections...

Our lives are made up of connections. Connections with people, jobs and organizations as well as connections with all kinds of material things – our cars, houses, boats, clothes and other possessions. The most important of these connections is our connection with our self. It is not a stretch at all to say that the quality of our life is determined by the quality of our connections. We define ourselves through our connections.

It used to be that deep, sustained, rich connections developed because we were far more stationary. Not much changed; the pace of life was slower. Today, that’s not likely. In my adult life I’ve lived in four countries and in 10 cities in the U.S. on both coasts. Yesterday I was in phone and email conversations with friends and colleagues in Japan, Finland, China, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Portland and here at home in Seattle. It can be hard work maintaining these connections. To do less jeopardizes the quality of my life.

Am I connected to my ideals? Are they connected to me? How do we create and maintain connections in today’s fast paced and rapidly changing world? The book “Women Connected: A Session-by-Session Coaching Guide for Women’s Groups” is an answer to these questions. It is written in a way that acknowledges that the quality of life is a function of the quality of one’s connections. It is written in a way that provides tools and resources designed to forge and enhance connections – with both my external world and my internal world. Pick it up today by going to www.womenconnected.com.

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